Dear Abandonia visitors: We are a small team that runs one of the largest DOS Games websites in the world. We have only 3 members of staff, but serve 450,000 users and have outgoing costs like any other top site for example: our servers, power, rent, programs, and staff. Abandonia is something special. It is a library of old games for you to download. It is like an old gaming arcade with all the old games in their original format. Abandonia is a place where you can find great old games and have fun four hours and years. To protect our independence, we are dependent of our friends using the site. We run on donations averaging around 6 USD (5 Euro). If everyone reading this gave the price of a cup of coffee, our fundraiser would be made easier. If Abandonia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online for another year. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Abandonia.

When Abandonia was founded it was to collect and present all old games where the copyright protection had been abandoned, hence the term ’abandonware’ and the site name Abandonia.com. We are still doing our best to keep the site open and free and will appreciate your support to help it stay that way.

&dash; Thank you from the Abandonia Team

We are trying to make it easy for people in every country to donate. Please let us know how we could make it easier for you.

Which brings us to Mortal Kombat Trilogy. Mortal Kombat Trilogy basically takes these four games and merges them into one big game, creating as Jim Ross of the WWE would say: "One good ol' fashioned slobberknocker" of a game.

The game revolves around the story of MK3. Shao Kahn was a sore loser after suffering defeat in MKII. So he revives his ten thousand-year-old plan of resurrecting his queen Sindel, but not on Outworld, on Earth. Uh-oh! The Elder gods can only watch as Kahn steals the soul of every human being and merges Earth with the Outworld. But there's souls that he can't take. The souls of the warriors who Raiden (who, by the way, is a rebel frowned upon by the gods) chose to stand against Kahn's rule. So what does he do? He sends his champions to kill the warriors. What happens next? Well, MORTAL KOMBAT!!

The game's set up like UMK3. You can choose between 1-on-1 Kombat, 2-on-2, or 8-player tournament. Once you pick a character in 1-player mode, you pick one of four towers: Novice, Warrior, Master, and Champion. The higher the rank, the more people you fight and the harder they are. You fight your way up the tower, battle an endurance team (like MK1, sometimes with more people), then Motaro, then finally you face Shao Kahn. Once Kahn's destroyed (Good luck, YOU'LL NEED IT!), you get to pick your reward: whether it be your character's ending or a fatality demonstration. There's some new surprises though, like the "Aggressor" bar which gives you more power once it's full, and auto-combos to give you an advantage against your opponents.

This thrill ride isn't without its faults, however. You'll notice quite a few glitches and bugs, plus the AI being completely unforgiving, even if you set the difficulty on Very Easy. Well at least the loading times that were in the Playstation version (which this version is based on) didn't return.

That aside, Mortal Kombat Trilogy is a nice snack for fighting game fans and retro junkies to bite into. Be advised this is only a ripped version with no CD audio. You'll find the ISO (which was too big to put on the main site) on the forums.